Virginia Woolf Quotes, Lying Quotes, People Quotes

A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day in corruption, lies, chatter. This he had preserved. Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the centre which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death.

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War is not women's history.

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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.

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Men felt a chill in their hearts; a damp in their minds. In a desperate effort to snuggle their feelings into some sort of warmth,one subterfuge was tried after anothersentences swelled, adjectives multiplied, lyrics became epics.

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I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.

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... the transaction between a writer and the spirit of the age is one of infinite delicacy, and upon a nice arrangement between the two the whole fortune of his works depend.

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Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

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In the 18th century we knew how everything was done, but here I rise through the air, I listen to voices in America, I see men flying- but how is it done? I can't even begin to wonder. So my belief in magic returns.

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To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

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When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

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Lines slip easily down the accustomed grooves. The old designs are copied so glibly that we are half inclined to think them original, save for that very glibness.

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war is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male.

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The light struck upon the trees in the garden, making one leaf transparent and then another. One bird chirped high up; there was a pause; another chirped lower down. The sun sharpended the walls of the house, and rested like the tip of a fan upon a white blind and made a fingerprint of a shadow under the leaf by the bedroom window. The blind stirred slightly, but all within was dim and unsubstantial. The birds sang their blank melody outside.

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Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read; what I haven't read.

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But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.

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As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.

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Yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.

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The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued.

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Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

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I find that when I've seen a certain number of people my mind becomes like an old match box -- the part one strikes on, I mean.

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